51+ (Actually Good) Architecture Firm Name Ideas & 3 Awful Ones

Tim Brown is the owner of Hook Agency, and strategic marketer focused primarily on driving traffic and leads for small businesses and construction companies.

This guide will give you 3 dead-simple strategies for naming your architecture firm, and share 34+ actually good architectural company name ideas. Perhaps the perfect name is just around the corner – but first here’s what NOT to do with your name:

Here are the 3 principles and 51+ names to get your creative juices going. Once you need a logo, a website or more traffic from Google, send us a message!

Use your name (be honest with yourself if it carries weight)

Names are an extremely common option for architectural companies – as the last name of a founder might carry a certain amount of notoriety in the architectural community. Of course, our list of options or suggestions below won’t have last names in it – being that it’s unlikely you’d want to use one other than your own or your firms lead designer.

Ultimately it may make the company harder to sell – and should be done only in cases where the name really does carry emotional weight in your region or niche. Possible options for name focused companies? Slap one of these bad boys on the end:

Studio

Partners

Designs

Group

Associates

Studio

And Co.

Inc.

Make it original and base it on your “Unique Value Proposition”

It’s very hard to brainstorm a list of names without knowing your unique value proposition. Ultimately. That’s where you want to start with a naming process. Are you always on time, and on-budget perhaps you should be called ‘Rock Solid + Associates + Studio + Partners’ – do you constantly push the boundaries of design, perhaps you could be ‘Edgewater Associates + Group + and Co.’, are you niched into one area of the state or country or one particular segment of the market? Why not include them in the name for instance – ‘Midwest Modern Architects.’

Make sure the URL is available – it’s 2019!

It’s now a very bare-minimum requirement in naming, to see if the URL is available so your company doesn’t have to end up with some off-brand ‘.net’ or add something unnatural to the end of your name to make your .com work.

I strongly suggest prioritizing this in your naming brainstorm and keeping it at the front of your conversations when coming up with a fresh name for your architectural firm.